3.17.2014

Ricardo

















"What's that? A Hat? Crazy, funky, junky hat. Overslept, hair unsightly. Tryin' to look like Kiera Knightley. We've been there. We've done that. We see right through your funky hat." Anyone remember that song?  I sure do. I remember my good old "Wizard's of Waverly Place" days fondly. Back in the day, more like 6 years ago ;), I was a huge Selena fan. I loved her in "Wizards" and she was pretty much the inspiration for my entire high school wardrobe, I mean, the girl and I are age twinners.
















Button Up: h&m boys section similar
Cardi: Express similar
Boyfriend Shorts: h&m similar
Loafers: h&m
Satchel: h&m similar
Hat: Chic Wish similar 

Ok, well, I don't know if I even got across what I was trying to say at all. I'm pretty sure that whole conversation up there was just a bunch of weird...weirdness. Let's move on. I'm soooooo in love with this floppy hat from ChicWish. It's the best. I'm kind of a mild hat fanatic. I have a crazy amount of beanies, slouchy berets, fedoras, trucker hats, and now, floppy hats. I can already envision a million and one more ways to wear this baby, and I cannot wait.

Much love!



2.20.2014

Nightmares and Head burns

I had the worst dreams the other night. Plus, they were creepy on top of being bad. The first dream was about...gosh this is embarrassing...Eminem. Yep. I had a nightmare about Eminem. My dream began thus. I was at a nighttime music festival with my sister. We had seen all of the artists that we liked so we decided to leave. Just as we were leaving we passed by the stage that Eminem was performing on. Right as we were passing, Eminem (who looked more Bradley Cooper-esque than like his actual creepy self) grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me up on stage. Dream me must've been majorly whacked on cotton candy or something because she was totally into it. Weirdo. Anyway, after Eminem's concert was over, he got my number (I have NO idea how dream me gave this to him willingly) and proceeded to send me flirty texts. I know. I know. Are you already vomiting in your mouth? I am. Then, in the dream, I felt guilty for flirting with Eminem (upchucking as I type this) because I remembered that he's married. Worst dream ever? Worst dream ever.
Now, onto the second dream! This one is pretty simple. I dreamed that all of my hair was falling out. In this nightmare, I dreamed that I was sitting at my kitchen counter with my mom when, all of a sudden, I noticed that there was a GIANT patch of hair missing on the right side of my head! I then proceeded to freak out and noticed that the more I freaked out, the more hair kept disappearing! By the time I managed to force myself to wake up, I had no eyelashes, was missing an eyebrow, and had only three strands of hair left on my head. I was almost in tears. Anyway, I think this dream was a form of a bad omen because when I was styling my hair that morning I burned my forehead. Pretty badly. Look closely and you'll notice a brown smudge on the top right (your left) corner of my forehead.  That's the burn.
Cardigan: Express similar
Top: h&m 
Liquid Leggings: h&m similar
Flats: h&m
Sunnies: F21 similar

In clothing related news, I'm digging these liquid leggings. I got them last summer and wore them twice. Now that I'm not shopping, though, because of my "Closet Challenge" (even if I've sucked this month) I'm finding myself wearing more of the things in my closet. In a way, I'm kind of shopping within my own closet. Anyway, I love these leggings because they're reminiscent of leather pants without actually costing the price of leather pants. Although, I do want an actual pair of leather pants. The past couple of days, here in Utah, have been really overcast and rainy/snowy so I've been sticking to purples and blues as far as color palettes go. No complaints here, though, I love me some good blues and purples! Although, I do wish that the warmer weather we'd been having would make a come back! 

Much love!

2.13.2014

Worse than Watching Nail Polish Dry

Guess who actually painted her nails today?! This girl, this girl! This is such a rare thing for me, it's pretty much a miracle. No joke. I rarely paint my nails, and when I do I'll usually just leave 'em until the paint chips off on its own. It's really actually kind of gross. I mean, we all know that feeling of being too embarrassed to let anyone see our hands because our nail polish is disgustingly chipped, am I right? That's pretty much the main reason I rarely paint my nails. I'm just too lazy to ever actually remove it properly, so for me, nail polish usually just ends up looking disgusting. Plus, that whole waiting for it to dry thing? It's the worst. It pretty much renders me a useless blob. I end up walking around like a zombie, with my arms outstretched and hands pointed straight forward for what feels like hours. Oh, and have you ever needed to pee while your nail polish was still drying? This seems to happen to me every. single. time. I paint my nails. I even try to avoid it by peeing before I start painting them, but nope. As soon as my nails are painted it's like they send an alert to my bladder that NOW would be the perfect time to let me know how much they care. Have any of you attempted to undo a button and a zipper with wet nails? It's pretty much like trying to get a puppy to move mid poop-squat because aforementioned puppy is about to poop on the lawn of the mean neighbor who never shares his peaches; it's basically impossible. Not that a puppy poop-squat situation like that has ever happened to me...(; Also, can we ignore the fact that the skin on my hands is similar to that of a wrinkly old lady and the general shape of my hands is akin to that of 100 year old corpse? Yeah, let's just all try and ignore that. Especially now that I've made it more obvious by mentioning it. ;)
This is my third "Valentine's Day Inspired" looks. I decided to go for something more casual, because, well, not everyone is a fan of dressing up. Plus, what's better than a "girl next door" look on Valentine's Day, am I right? I thought the perfect way to go for a dressed down Valentine's Day look would be to go with my broken hearts trucker hat. To girl it up a little bit, because it is still Valentine's Day after all, I paired it with my floral bodysuit. Which, I loving like to call my, "adult onesie". Which, honestly, IS pretty much all it is. On a side note about adult onesies, I was actually always adamantly opposed to them. I just didn't get the point in having a bodysuit when you could have a perfectly good shirt. Know what I mean? Well, when I used that F21 gift card that I had leftover from Christmas I saw this bodysuit that I just fell in love with and got. Later on, when I fell off the bandwagon over the weekend and actually spent my own money on a shopping trip, I saw this floral bodysuit and decided I was officially addicted to bodysuits and went ahead and got it. I now know what I've been missing out on, guys. Bodysuits are the perfect way to tuck in a top and have absolutely NO lines! Plus they stay perfectly and smoothly tucked the whole day, which is perfect for pencil skirts or trousers! Their only downfall? Yupp, you guessed it. Wedgie-mania. Also, they should start making them even more like actual onesies by adding those convenient snap buttons on the bottom, for more convenient bathroom usage. ;)
 Bodysuit: F21
Cardigan: Express similar
Boyfriend Shorts: h&m similar
Loafers: F21
Trucker Hat: American Eagle, cute option here

Also, it was a balmy 55 degrees the day I wore this outfit, so I wasn't actually very cold wearing these shorts. Although, I will admit, they're a lot shorter than I had realized. They still aren't by any means those teeny bopper shorts that are annoyingly all the rage right now, but I'd still like them to be a couple of inches longer. Maybe I'll just have to hack a pair of my little brothers old jeans and make my own perfect length boyfriend shorts. ;)

Much love!
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